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package com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior.iiop;

import com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior.TaggedProfile;

import com.sun.corba.se.spi.orb.ORB;
import com.sun.corba.se.spi.orb.ORBVersion;

import com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior.iiop.GIOPVersion;

/**
 * IIOPProfile represents an IIOP tagged profile.
 * It is essentially composed of an object identifier and
 * a template.  The template contains all of the
 * IIOP specific information in the profile.
 * Templates are frequently shared between many different profiles,
 * while the object identifiy is unique to each profile.
 */
public interface IIOPProfile extends TaggedProfile {

  ORBVersion getORBVersion();

  /**
   * Return the servant for this profile, if it is local
   * AND if the OA that implements this objref supports direct access to servants
   * outside of an invocation.
   * XXX move this to the ObjectKeyTemplate
   */
  java.lang.Object getServant();

  /**
   * Return the GIOPVersion of this profile.  Caches the result.
   */
  GIOPVersion getGIOPVersion();

  /**
   * Return the Codebase of this profile.  Caches the result.
   */
  String getCodebase();
}
